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Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner
Even something as simple as better target selection could have helped immensely. What if the Luftwaffe spent more effort in Russia right from the start trying to identify and take out critical factories and rail junctions in a coordinated campaign like the US and Britain did (for the most part)?
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Wish I had time to look up the numbers for sorties, bomb weight, and damage of the USAAF/RAF in the several anti transportation campaigns. My first thought was the Luftwaffe did not have the number of bombers needed, but I'm probablly misguessing the requirements.
My father was a ordinance officer in the 9th Air Force & I've always been struck by his remarks about how the weight of ordinance required to significantly curtail the German and French railroads was several times what they had assumed up through 1942. Groups of 24-30 medium bombers making level attacks from altitudes from 10,000 feet down to 500 feet and below caused far less damage than they expected to bridges and rail yards.